United States v. C.L. Childress
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
An all-white jury convicted C.L. Childress on three counts of firearms violations, 18 U. S.C. § 1202(a)(1) (App.), in the District Court 1 for the Eastern District of Missouri. A panel of this court affirmed his conviction, 721 F.2d 1148. Subsequently, this court on its own motion ordered the appeal reargued en banc on the issue of the government’s use of peremptory challenges to remove all or almost all the black prospective jurors from the jury panel. We specifically directed the parties to address a recent Illinois appellate decision, People v. Payne, 106…
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